V. I. Lenin

Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onThe Setting Up of a Water Transport Management Board{1}

Written:March 4, 1918Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXI.

      Printed from the manuscript.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      2nd English Edition,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

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Thatcomrades Milyutin, Shlyapnikov and Aprelev be charged
with organising, not later than tomorrow, a Board in pursuance of

§ 3{2}, each special function to be handled by a specially
authorised agent answerable to the Board as a whole and to the C.P.C.

Thatin pursuance of § 3 any six Board members at the choice of
the Supreme Economic Council and representatives of the regional councils
be replaced by representatives 01 the all-Russia trade unions.

Thattwo comrades, one from the Water Transport Union and one from the
S.E.C., shall be appointed immediately and report not later than tomorrow
to Spunde in order to have the currency notes dispatched without

delay.{3}

{1}The reference is to § 3 of the Decree Concerning the Administration of
the Merchant Marine and Inland Water Transport adopted at a meeting of the
C.P.C. on February 27, 1918 (seeDecrees of the Soviet Government,
Vol. I, Moscow,1957, pp. 501-02).

{2}This refers to the allocation of funds for repair work on the Volga and
Mariinsk system.

{3}[PLACEHOLDER.]